New UI is extremely ugly compared to previous versions

Have to say, the new design is really distasteful. I am not a fan of the overwhelming roundness everywhere, and I really don't like how DM notifications look like server notifications *plus* the red number icon, which is now super obvious instead of being nicely tucked away.

The older, square "New Unreads" notifications were a lot more pleasing to see than the new round ones. Almost every social platform keeps updating to be rounder thinking it's "sleeker." It really isn't, it makes me feel like I'm in some weird, over-simplified, over-minimalist world. Subtler curves were sleek and didn't feel like they invaded my privacy too much if I was in a different channel.

Making the pin/mute notifications button in channels more obvious is also highly annoying. If someone mutes a channel, they don't want to be reminded that it's been muted - it would be a massive improvement if the heading bar was thinner/smaller like before.

In fact, the whole header/search bar area when reading a channel looks to have been increased in size as well, in DMs as well this appears. It stands out and is visually displeasing.

Hopefully this reaches someone who can take these criticisms into the next UI update.

"Almost every social platform keeps updating to be rounder thinking it's "sleeker." It really isn't, it makes me feel like I'm in some weird, over-simplified, over-minimalist world."

Google has started with it and everyone else seems to think they have to join in, do the designers have no good taste anymore? I've been glad that discord has not exaggerated using the rounded edges and things yet and then the update came making me feel like I killing myself when I saw that. And what I do not understand most is that it bothers so few. It even started to feel like a conspiracy to me.

I can't be the only one who feels like the new animation applied to the icons when changing servers makes changing between servers take FOREVER, can I? It legit takes like an eighth of a second or something to change between servers now!

I agree, I feel that the new round notification icon blends in too easily with the server icon. Also the white half tab that shows up next to the server icon when mousing over absolutely drives me bonkers. I keep thinking that a server has unread messages as I am scrolling through the server list